When love is present everything radiates and beauty abounds. We are not captured and hostage to our personality structure, to the opinions or our judging mind and we know that the fabric of the universe is seamless until we cut into it, creating cause and effect, conflict and damage. When love is present, no one person is more or less than any other sentient being. We understand the oneness of all. Possibility abounds in love which, yes, starts with a separate self that can pursue wholeness and therein union with others and the universe. Nothing destroys the essence of love. To me love is the divine, the everlasting.
If I had more than a day, I would extol the path to love, to wholeness - the Enneagram system of nine types, ennea being simply Greek for nine. The Enneagram provides us with the supreme path to healthy relationships as it reaches down to the core of our personality pattern and consequently to our adaptive strategy. It is a liberation psychology helping to free us from the constraints of our habitual and limiting patterns. And as its ultimate gift, it provides us with a path to integrating our personality and higher essential or spiritual qualities, integration being the linkage of differentiated elements. Moreover, the Narrative Tradition of the Enneagram of representatives of the nine types speaking for themselves further gifts us with inspiration and hope. When we become centered, grounded, and receptive in non-judgment, we can explore and share our habitual pattern and with practice free ourselves from its reactivity and defensiveness. We come to understand others as they are to themselves and broaden our acceptance and appreciation of differences. It is my path. I invite you to explore this path for yourself. It will gift you with a remarkable path to wholeness and love.
My Favourite Quotations on Love
"Not knowing how near the Truth is, people seek it far away. What a pity! They are like one who, in the midst of water, cries out in thirst so imploringly." - Zen master Hakuim
"Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth." - M Scott Peck
"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment." - Georgia O'Keefe
"Love implies duality: lover and beloved,subject and object. So love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality.' - Eckhart Tolle
"I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, enough to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions and hand over my body to be burnt but do not have love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind. Love is not envious, boastful, arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way. Love is not irritable or resentful. Love does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. Now faith, hope and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love." - Saint Paul
"Love means never to be afraid of the windstorms of life: should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings." - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"I know of only one duty, and that is to love." - Albert Camus
"Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not, nor would it be possessed; for love is sufficient unto love." - Kahlil Gibran
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." - Aristotle
"If I am not for myself, who am I. If I am only for myself, what am I. If not now when." - Rabbi Hillel
"Cause and effect in relationship simply depends upon where you cut into the seamless fabric of the universe." - David Daniels
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